I've been in a bit of a funk the last few days. Eve is getting ready to move back and we're not sure what her time off will be like, but the master's goes straight through for two years, so she'll be home, but not for two weeks or four months at a time. This is hitting both her and me pretty hard - she said "I might be realizing that if I don't have four months off every years then I can't live that far away permanently." I will always support my kids in their efforts to be independent and do rewarding work, but I kind of hope she does end up a little closer to home.
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Moving my parents has hit a snag or two - there aren't many apartments available that meet their specs - so we're all a little anxious and cranky, and even if it was all going smoothly, it's definitely the end of something, and there's a low-level grief happening around that. Then there are smaller annoyances - getting my chronic neck pain to a more manageable level just in time for chronic knee pain to become a thing, my new CPAP mask making my nose bleed every night even though it should be exactly the same as my old mask, just newer.
It will be okay. I have a friend coming on Tuesday to stay for a few days which will be fun and good for getting me out of my head. Matt and Eve drove to Hamilton last Sunday and did a move-in of all the big stuff - furniture from my parents' house, clearing out the storage locker, IKEA trip - and I'll take her back next week-end to move her clothes and stuff in and finish up making sure she has enough kitchen stuff etc.
In other fun news, I also got tickets for Eve and I to go and see Hamilton (the musical) this weekend. I knew the touring company was coming back through but I had forgotten until Collette said she was at Hamilton and I was confused thinking she said she was IN Hamilton, and then remembered. I asked Eve yesterday if I should see if there were reasonable tickets and she said she'd love to go, so I called Matt at work to ask if he wanted to come to. I said "Eve and I are going to go to Hamilton on Sunday" and Eve yelled out "CONFUSING" and I realized I had idiotically done the same thing to him that Collette had unintentionally done to me, and hastily clarified. We're driving to Hamilton (the city) next Sunday, so Eve now has "Hamilton" marked on her calendar for three consecutive Sundays for two different causes.
Oh, in other stupid annoying things, my old Blogger app stopped working, so I updated it and now pictures won't load. I am therefore unable to expose you to a deluge of absolute banger Vancouver Aquarium pictures. I know you're disappointed, so while I troubleshoot the issue I am going to publish posts with random old pictures from my Chromebook. I trust the foregoing photos will now be less perplexing.
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Those photos are inexplicable and therefore rather wonderful. Dare we hope for blog posts in the future explaining each photo? If I had to pick one, I would ask about the one with all the drinking glasses. Which I couldn't tell that's what it was until I embiggened the photo.
Moving parents - it's difficult to find joy in that process and I'm sorry to hear it has been complicated by physical pain.
Enjoy Hamilton! And enjoy Hamilton! I have never seen either one. Maybe someday....
I will absolutely explain the photos. Also, I just commented on your post and it looks like the comment disappeared - maybe stuck in spam, or maybe will appear after a while?
The Hamilton confusion is hilarious--especially the redux version. And the photos are intriguing.
I'm *mad* at Eve's grad school distance and parents' apartment and your knee pain and C-pap discomfort for you. I hope they're able to work on fixing the last two for you. (I'm glad to hear the neck pain is a bit better.) XO
I was puzzling until my puzzler was sore about the photos! That's hilarious that they were random. Makes A LOT more sense now.
Ugh. It's hard to be away from home. I'm 4.5 hours from my parents and I'm the closest kid by far. I have a sister in Barrie, and then one in the US and my brother is in Denmark. We did not stay close to home :( There are perks to spreading the wings, but I think more perks (if the familial relationship is close, which is clearly is in this case) to being nearby. My niece recently had a baby and my sister can be there as a very involved grandma. Our own mom got to see her new grandbabies once a year if she was lucky. It's just not the same!
All that said, I hope Eve absolutely adores the grad school experience.
I love musicals. I've never actually seen Hamilton, but the songs are very catchy!
I'm going to Hamilton! I'm in Hamilton! I will never not be confused (although I am jelly, I'd love to see Hamilton and I just...cannot imagine this will ever be put on by Kelowna Community Theatre, or if it is, I'm not sure I'd, um, want to see it).
I LOVE friends who will get mad at stuff that is annoying me.
I think it's incredibly cool to end up living in a whole different country from where you grew up. I just wish everything wasn't so FAR from everything else.
Yeah, there are some great voices and performances that come out of community theatre but this would be quite the undertaking.
I used to have that Hamilton/Hamilton confusion all the time when you posted about Eve. Now I don't, but I do get random songs from Hamilton stuck in my head when you mention Eve being there or when you visit.
I am sorry about the physical woes. Chronic pain is awful, I know from North's. I hope you have a nice visit with your friend.
I listened to a podcast (Slate Culture Gabfest, if anyone cares) where they talked about how there was a Hamilton (the musical) backlash and people saying it's naive and a product of the Obama years and lame and then there was a backlash to the backlash that it was groundbreaking and still holds up. I have no opinion. I've never watched it and the songs I've heard make my head hurt, but I trust that people who know better than me who say it's a work of Great Importance.
What was I trying to say? Oh, I hope you had a great experience at Hamilton and can tell me what all the fuss is about!
North has had it way worse from such a young age, it sucks massively.
We did have a great time, and if you are not in on all the fuss by now it's probably not your thing, which is totally fine.
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